Re: powerful editors versus IDEs (was: License to Steal)

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Beard, Frank" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil> writes:

> I miss the repeat function in emacs, where you could repeat
> an action anywhere in a file.  That would definitely come in
> handy when we have to add an update comment to the end of 
> every line that we modify.

Jings! management gone mad! you need to look into a proper source code
management system. CVS is free (so is SCCS, but why you would want to
use it I don't know ..)

What do your source files look like after a few updates? full of crap
telling me who changed stuff and (perhaps) why, completely obscuring
the program logic and making it look so ugly that anyone with the
faintest sense of aesthetics comes over faint when asked to look at
it.

(Frank, I quite understand that this sort of thing is a policy imposed
from on high, not what you'd necessarily choose to do).